lunes, 16 de julio de 2012

GET'N BUSY ON FRIDAY THE 13th

There
are no bath salts secondary effects that can be compared to a night on Friday
the 13th when violence met poetry. Last Friday the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico was the host of a terrific get together of exquisite corpses of crème de la crème poets. The host was brief cold about what was in store. The
purpose: listening how a group of honorable artists of the cutting edge word
portrayed their own nightmares through their own and unique metaphoric boo
hoos. Jason was not around but Lyn is pretty sure that if he had been present
he would have, at some point, struck his ax right in the middle of the podium. There
was sexy corpse stories by Monsieur Rafah Acevedo, oozing funny punch lines by Mademoiselle
Nicole Cecilia Delgado, a rotting zombie murmur by John Torres, a scary movie
by Aurea Maria Sotomayor and brightful sequins being dragged in the dark by
Angel Antonio among other hell raising stories.

The
reason for that freaky evening was to have a blood toast with Carlos Rivera Villafañe's exhibition "Manifestaciones de lo humano", a visual and
horrorific voyage through the artists apocalyptical visions in our day by day reality encounters with death and violence. "Poetry is busy: poemas
demasiado humanos" put together by Madame Yara Liceaga is a hair raising
effort to keep poetry alive and screaming within the main stream walls of a
museum that is constantly running for it's survival. Lyn is pretty sure that
the Museum curator Madame Lilliana Ramos Collado has been essential part of
these violent strategies to keep the institution away from the claws of slow
rot away.

"Pistola en concreto". Carlos Rivera Villafañe. 1996

Thank
God it was only Friday and at some point it was going to be over to give way to
Saturday. The next day Lyn woke up to realize that the night before was not
scary enough, that the newspapers were still delivering the worst nightmares
with the difference that the perpetrators of the stories did not have the
grace to tell them the way that la crème de la crème poets would do.